urbanjunkie

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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
You should take a second and actually read what's been written.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
By your definition everyone is a scientist. What has Mark Zuckerberg done that can be called science. You should also cite your references - The Free Dictionary isn't particularly credible.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Go and do some research into the difference between science and engineering. Then go and do some research into the difference between theoretical and experimental science. Just because you use science, doesn't mean you are a scientist. The
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
You don't need a PhD to be a scientist, but you almost certainly need a PhD to be funded to do science. (there are of course exceptions, but this is very much the general rule)
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Bridge building is accepted as engineering. Engineering is not science. Brunel could probably not have formulated the Theory of Relativity. Einstein could probably not have "built" the Great Western Railway. The application of science is no
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Most freelancers I know have registered for VAT, even if they don't have to. In the UK, you have to register if your turnover is more than £73,000, and the benefits for registering even if you're under that threshold are compelling (except
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
If you are in Europe (especially the UK), there is almost no excuse for not registering for VAT. As long as you are a 'business' (and this definition includes freelancers), then there is nothing stopping you from doing so. Once you're VAT r
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I do understand that, but these are female medical students.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Paraphrased from final paragraph of the article. "According to Sumathi Dharmalingam, a housewife who runs a napkin-making business based around the machine, rural women [snipped] have a devil-may-care attitude about their health. "When I ca
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
This is both inspiring and depressing. Female medical students not wishing to talk to a man about menstruation. The fatalistic, egotistical and selfish attitude epitomised by women being unconcerned about losing their uterus. And of course,
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_York The MV York is a liquified gas tanker that was captured in 2010 and is/was used a mothership. The use of larger and more robust vessels as support / launch platforms greatly increases the operational r
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I struggled, but ultimately succeeded in not throwing up in my mouth whilst reading this.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
You seem to be implying that he committed suicide, and that you could have done something about it. Do you have any information about this? And why would you have been helpful in this situation?
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I don't really even know how to respond to that. I suspect you're not really sorry that we die, as you seem to think that when faced with death, the proper response is to accept one's fate. I would understand your attitude if setting up a w
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Your need to have an opinion on this is actually pretty offensive. The guy wants to live. So stop this rather pathetic passive aggression.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
You need to provide a reference. This page from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_science ) suggests that over 63% of research is funded by private sources. Overhead is relevant as it shows that even at 'public' universiti
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Not really true anymore. A significant proportion of science research is funded by non-governmental organisations - for example the Gates Foundation. Furthermore, most universities will charge the researchers who receive grants a cost know
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
It's strange how so many people are waiting for a number. As far as I can tell, there have been almost no feature promises, so the TM developer would be perfectly within his rights to add the 1 or 2 promised features, bump the version to 2,
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2011 QS University Rankings - Cambridge still #1(topuniversities.com)
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
So, in a discussion about finding alien life, you don't think the Fermi Paradox is relevant, OK. Your condescending response is amusing, but also demonstrates that you've failed to understand what the Fermi Paradox. I would humbly suggest t
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Resumes and CVs are a crapshoot, and typically add little real value - for the most part they give you almost no idea whether the person is really qualified or not. At this point, if I was hiring and in Boston (or wherever), I'd be tempted
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
If I may adopt your strategy, I've learned from your post that - you're quick to jump to unsupported conclusions. Perhaps you could create some kind of mat for this. - you're a bit of a traditionalist, - you think resumes are better than ac
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Fermi Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox It's even more relevant if what we're searching for are civilisations that are 'similar' to ours, ie use radio/electro-magnetism for communication at a distance
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Not really, yummyfajitas is guilty of intellectual dishonesty, so this seems like quite a pertinent response.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
And once again, he demonstrates that he doesn't understand what's going on. A lot of the backlash focuses on his dubious claim to the moral high ground. I, once more, invite Sam to explain how much of his OWN time and money he donates to ch
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
It's clear that there's a difference between organisations setup to receive and manage charitable donations and something that is essentially part of the commons. Not sure if you genuinely misunderstood, or you're just being quite boringly
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Giving to charity should be a personal decision, not something used to raise one's own profile or to prove a point. His email to Jonathan, and his subsequently passive aggressive "olive branch" reply also demonstrate how he's totally failed
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
In this case I think it's perfectly reasonable. Given the fact that the Daily Fail uses page views as one of their key metrics, and publishes articles that are essentially bait purely to generate page views, denying them their currency is a
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
So, given that the woman in question has not crossed tracks with someone known for raping, why should she be happy that she hasn't been raped. Honestly, at this point, why not just admit you're not a particularly empathic person, and other
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
So, by that logic, if I did get raped, I should be happy I didn't get tortured and killed, right? Basically, nothing should ever bother me, because there's always something worse that could happen.

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